"He was like a younger brother to me," Payne's good friend, Ant Middleton, said after finding out about the tragedy moments before a TV interview Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at ...

Shockwaves spread around the world Thursday at the death of Liam Payne, who shot to stardom as a member of British boy band One Direction and had to deal with intense global fame while still in his ...

This story has been updated to add statements from One Direction and individual band members. One Direction has released a statement on the death of bandmember Liam Payne. Payne, prolific One ...

Karla Brador-Diaz had an instinctual reaction to hearing about Liam Payne’s death last week. “Hey, man, what do you mean Liam Payne just died? Like what are you talking about?” the 18-year-old said in ...